1.

It is an activity that involves the interaction of people whose relationship is characterized by

conflict and cooperation, and who come together to solve such disagreements through binding
solutions.
 Politics
2. Politics concerns the state. It focuses on the personnel and machinery of the government.
 Art of government
3. Politics is the conduct and management of public interest and therefore, political affairs.
 Public affairs
4. Politics attempts to resolve conflict through discussion, compromise, bargaining, and consensus,
wherein people arrive at a binding decision.
 Compromise and consensus
5. Politics involves the exercise of authority in the production, distribution, and use of resources.
This describes who gets what and under what circumstances.
 Power and the distribution of resources
6. It is a social science discipline that studies the state and the government.
 Political science
7. It is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of
culture and civilization.
 Conservatism
8. It is any various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental
ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
 Socialism
9. It is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the government, and equality
before the law. It favors change, prefers more freedom, and has a more optimistic approach to
human reasoning and nature
 Liberalism
10. Power is perceived as the influence on the content of decisions. Who decides, what to be made,
and how to execute such decision all involve power.
 Power as decision-making
11. Power involves the ability to set or control political agenda, highlighting one at the exclusion of
other issues.
 Power as agenda setting
12. Power is seen as an ideological indoctrination or a psychological control where one has the
ability to change or shape how another thinks or behaves.
 Power as thought control
13. It is the instrument of state through which the will of the people
 Power
14. It is commonly defined as the exercise of power or authority by political leaders for attainment
of the well-being of their country’s citizens or inhabitants.
 Governance
15. It is created for the benefit of the people governed and it accomplishes services or functions
that are beyond the capabilities of any individual or enterprise
 Government
16. What type of power is exercised if the target person complies because he or she identifies with
the agent and wants to gain the agent’s approval?
 Referent power
17. The target person complies in order to avoid punishments he or she believes are controlled by
the agent.
 Coercive power
18. The target person complies in order to obtain rewards he or she believes are controlled by the
agent.
 Reward power
19. The target person complies because he or she believes that the agent has special knowledge
about the best way to do something.
 Expert power
20. The target person complies because he or she believes the agent has the right to make the
request and the target person has the obligation to comply.
 Legitimate power
21. Through legitimate power compliance with the order may occur if it is perceived to be within
the leader’s scope of ____________.
 Authority
22. It is the type of power that is most suitable if the objective is preventing behavior that is harmful
to the society and well-being of the people such as illegal and violent activities.
 Coercive power
23. This face of power refers to the ability to prevent decisions being made: that is, in effect, ‘non-
decision-making’.
 power as thought control
24. ______ as a face of power is manifested in political life thru the use of propaganda and, more
generally, in the impact of ideology.
 Power as agenda setting
25. Means readiness or act of agreeing to do something.
 Compliance